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A few years back I purchased for my iPad what seemed like a spiritual (hah!) successor to Lemmings: Spirits.

http://www.spacesofplay.com/spirits/

I enjoyed it for a while, but despite its beauty it never really caught my imagination the way playing Lemmings on the Mac did.

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My brother and I are about to release yet another spiritual successor to Lemmings [0]. It has similar gameplay, but more interesting items (flip gravity, portal guns, etc.) and trickier puzzles. As much as I loved Lemmings, it gets a bit tedious once you figure out the stopper / builder combo.

[0] - https://applepinegames.com/inklings

Inklings' graphics are great. I love the interaction with the backgrounds. The look reminds me of the PS3 game LocoRoco Cocoreccho:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocoRoco_Cocoreccho

This is one case where I feel like the graphics really held back the game despite being pretty. It was too hard to predict what the spirits were going to do.

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